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As Bulgaria strives to implement Western standards of law and order, its battle with organized crime is being closely watched by the European Union. The EU has withheld hundreds of millions of euros in aid to Bulgaria's previous government due to rampant corruption and the failure to convict
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The father of murdered toddler James Bulger, Ralph Bulger, has expressed deep concerns over the parole board's decision to release Jon Venables, his son's killer, back into society. Venables, who was 10 years old when he abducted and killed James in 1993, had been serving a
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The Madhya Pradesh home ministry has taken a decisive step to address police brutality by suspending all uniformed personnel at Berasia police station and attaching them to a battalion after a district court ordered registry of an attempt to murder case against them. The case revolves around the alleged assault
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A local court in Faizabad has sentenced former BSP MLA Anand Sen and his two aides, Vijay and Seema, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and killing a dalit girl, Shashi, in 2007. The victim's father, Yogendra Prasad, had accused Anand Sen of having an affair with his daughter,
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In a recent spate of arrests, multiple individuals have been charged with a range of crimes in the Sauk Valley area of Illinois. The charges include first-degree murder, armed robbery, burglary, and more. The crimes themselves are a stark reminder of the potential dangers that lurk in the community. From
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A decade ago, researchers from Boston College interviewed a number of former IRA members as part of an oral history project, with the promise that the recordings would remain sealed until after the death of the interview subjects. However, British authorities have now subpoenaed the recordings of two former IRA
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As the war in Northern Ireland drew to a close in the late 1990s, two interviewers, working for an oral history project at Boston College, collected memories of the conflict from paramilitary fighters involved in some of the era's most violent episodes. The interviewers, armed with a digital
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Kevin Crilly, a 60-year-old man from south Armagh, was found not guilty of the murder of undercover soldier Captain Robert Nairac in a Belfast Crown Court trial. Crilly, who had been on the run for nearly 30 years, showed no emotion when Judge Mr Justice Richard McLaughlin acquitted him of
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Mikhail Lysenko, a former head of the Engels district administration in the Saratov region, is embroiled in four ongoing criminal cases, with suspicions of organizing a murder, abduction, and receiving a significant bribe. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, Lysenko accepted a bribe of over 92 million rubles in 2007
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Detectives in the UK announced the arrest of a 47-year-old man on suspicion of murder in connection with the disappearance of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan. The arrest was made after police responded to a tip and followed up on a lead that led them to a semi-detached property in
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The Peshawar High Court made significant decisions regarding bail applications in several high-profile cases, granting relief to some accused individuals while rejecting it for others. The court's single bench, comprising Justice Dost Muhammad Khan, heard the cases and made their rulings. In one case, bail was granted to
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The Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi, presided over by Judge Syed Hassan Shah Bukhari, delivered a severe verdict on December 29, 2010. The court sentenced to death a convict who had kidnapped and killed a five-year-old girl in July 2010. The convict, Sher Khan, was also given a life imprisonment sentence
